Postal Code

[edit] Postal codes
Postal codes are a relatively recent development in addressing, designed to speed the sorting and processing of mail by assigning unique numeric or alphanumeric codes to each geographical locality.

postal code
census tract name
forest stand identifier
road name
Geocoding
Geocoding = deriving implicit from explicit references ...

Postal code
[edit] U.S. Postal Service codes
U.S. postal abbreviation
ZIP Code prefixes ...

Find postal code for address, and address for full postal code plus street number
Locate town or village; find municipality it is part of, and some basic data ...

geocoder Transforms a description of a feature location, such as a place name, street address or postal code, into a normalized description of the location, which includes a coordinate geometry.

The data is sometimes referenced with postal codes or street locations rather than with geodetic data.

Coordinate Systems (Dana/Geographer's Craft) -- Global systems: latitude, longitude, height, UTM; Local systems: public land rectangular surveys, metes and bounds; Miscellaneous systems: postal codes, navigational systems.

Geographic References: Geographic information contains either an explicit geographic reference, such as a latitude and longitude or national grid coordinate, or an implicit reference such as an address, postal code, census tract name, ...

The Natural Area Coding System, the Universal Address System, the Global Postal Code System, ...

Geographic information contains either an explicit geographic reference, such as latitude and longitude or state plane coordinate, or an implicit reference such as a rural address, postal code, census tract name, forest stand identifier, ...

Geocoding - The process by which the geographic coordinates of a location are determined by its address, postal code, or other explicitly non-geographic descriptor.
Legend - The description of the symbology representing features on a map.

To complete this tutorial you must download the sample data and set up a WFS in GeoServer. This is FSA (Forward Sortation Area) postal code data for Vancouver's North Shore.

[geocoding] The arrangement of address information in a database, most often consisting of such address elements as house number, street direction, street name, street type, city, and postal code.

Lines represent objects that have length but are too narrow to be depicted as areas.
Parks, census tracts, postal codes, and trade areas are examples of polygon (or area) features.

Canadian neighborhoods into 66 distinct market segments based on the most important drivers of consumer behavior: demographics, lifestyles, and values. PRIZMC2 data is available at the dissemination level (DA) in the Enhanced product and postal code ...

See also: Information, Location, Geographic, Address, Feature